Understanding the top down and bottom up of executive and sensory functioning
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This document provides an overview of a seminar on understanding top-down and bottom-up executive and sensory functioning. It discusses topics like points of impairment, conducting curious and compassionate evaluations, strategic behavioral inquiry to understand behaviors, and creating "joie de vivre" and "magic moments" through treatment. The goal is living fully in the present moment. Attendees are invited to join the speaker's email newsletter or follow him on social media to stay updated. A question and answer period is included in the seminar.
Understanding the top down and bottom up of executive and sensory functioning
- 1. David D Nowell PhD www.DrNowell.com Understanding the Top- Down and Bottom-Up of Executive and Sensory Functioning
- 3. Overview • Top-down and bottom-up • Points of impairment • Curious compassionate nonjudgmental evaluation • HËDŸDT? • Joie de vivre and “magic moments” • Living in the gap • Q&A&D
- 7. TOP DOWN AND BOTTOM UP
- 8. What’s wrong with this brain model?
- 9. What’s wrong with this brain model?
- 10. What’s wrong with this brain model?
- 12. Points of impairment • Intellectual development • Autistic spectrum • ADHD / executive dysfunction • Attachment disorders • Trauma-related disorders • Cerebral palsy
- 13. CURIOUS COMPASSIONATE NONJUDGMENTAL EVALUATION
- 14. Skillfully eliciting the chief complaint • Too much of what? Or too little of what? • Invoking the Pediatric Fairy (or the Psychiatric Genie)
- 15. HËDŸDT? • How exactly did you do that? – Everybody’s doing the best he/she can – Every behavior problem is either • Skills deficit • Contingency problem
- 16. Forming a diagnostic impression • Where do you see it the most? And where do you see it the least? • Two disorders = two stories
- 17. Documenting and communicating your conclusions • The footprints in the butter • Defend your diagnosis
- 20. Objectives of SBI • Specific behavioral strategy • What was the feeling-goal? • Motivational level on a scale from 1-10
- 21. Benefits of SBI • Affirms the value of clients’ unique internal experience • Emphasizes the culture of self-regulation • Encourages metacognition
- 22. Assumptions of SBI • Everybody’s doing the best they can • Behavior is not incomprehensible or random • Behavior follows patterns which reveal themselves to the curious observer free of prejudice or blame or theory
- 23. How to do SBI “How exactly did you do that?” “How did you know it was time to _____?” “How long had you been thinking about ____?”
- 24. JOIE DE VIVRE AND MAGIC MOMENTS
- 25. The end goal of treatment: joie de vivre Dr. Lucy Jane Miller
- 26. “Magic moments”
- 27. LIVING IN THE GAP
- 30. Let’s stay in touch! Join my e-newsletter list: Fill out a card today and drop it in the box. Sign up on my web site or Facebook page Visit us on the web: www.DrNowell.com @davidnowell David Nowell Seminars
- 31. Q & A & D